HP Announces Plans To Split Company Into Two
Monday, October 6th, 2014THN NewsNEWS (The Hosting News) – Hewlett-Packard announced today that it will split the company into two different public companies, one focused on PC and printing and another focused on software and services. “Today’s announcement comes as HP approaches the fourth year...

HP Hires Former Rackspace Cloud Executive, Mark Interrante
Thursday, July 10th, 2014THN NewsNEWS (The Hosting News) – Hewlett-Packard’s newest executive to lead its cloud computing unit comes from Texas based IT hosting company Rackspace. Mark Interrante, former senior VP for products and engineering, will run HP’s cloud research and development team as the...

HP To Invest $1 Billion In New Cloud Portfolio, HP Helion
Wednesday, May 7th, 2014THN NewsNEWS (The Hosting News) – Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday announced that it will spend over $1 billion over the next two years on its cloud computing services and products. The company’s new cloud portfolio, HP Helion, will include its OpenStack technology products...

A Smarter TV: HP Sells WebOS to LG
Tuesday, February 26th, 2013THN NewsNEWS (The Hosting News) – Electronics giant HP has finally found a buyer for its WebOS software – an operating system used to power the now defunct HP TouchPad. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed in a press release....

A Brief Introduction to OpenStack
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013Tavis J. HamptonARTICLE Two trends that have taken off in the IT world are the open source movement and cloud computing. Both have allowed innovations in web hosting that would not have otherwise been possible. OpenStack is a merging of these two trends...

IDC: In a Weak Market, HP & Lenovo Lead
Friday, January 11th, 2013THN NewsNEWS (The Hosting News) – Sales in the PC market still aren’t meeting the expectations many companies hope for. On Thursday, research firm IDC unveiled new analysis showing that shipments again declined during 2012’s last quarter. While 89.8 million may sound...

5 Cloud Trends to Look Forward to in 2013
Thursday, December 27th, 2012Tavis J. HamptonARTICLE As 2012 comes to a close, we can expect cloud computing to continue to gain users both in the consumer and enterprise markets. The following ongoing trends could very well gain momentum in 2013. As with all IT, however, this...

Build a Private Cloud with Ubuntu
Thursday, December 6th, 2012Tavis J. HamptonARTICLE One of the advantages of the cloud is its relative ease and simplicity. In some cases, it is as simple as clicking a button to turn on a new virtual appliance. Therefore, it can be rather intimidating when people start...